text: """
  We will put all global, immutable variables here and do a `from blahblah import *`.
  """
  
  import os
  
  
  BASE_DIR = os.environ['BASE_DIR']
  CONFIG_DIR = os.environ['CONFIG_DIR']
  DATA_SOURCES_DIR = os.environ['DATA_SOURCES_DIR']
  WATCHDOG_DIR = os.environ['WATCHDOG_DIR']
  TRANSFORMS_DIR = os.environ['TRANSFORMS_DIR']
  DEPENDENCIES_DIR = os.environ['DEPENDENCIES_DIR']
  ENTITIES_DIR = os.environ['ENTITIES_DIR']
  SNIPPETS_DIR = os.environ['SNIPPETS_DIR']
  DATA_STORES_DIR = os.environ['DATA_STORES_DIR']
  SRC_DIR = os.environ['SRC_DIR']
  
  MYSQL_HOST = os.environ['MYSQL_HOST']
  MYSQL_USER = os.environ['MYSQL_USER']
  MYSQL_PASSWORD = os.environ['MYSQL_PASSWORD']
  MYSQL_DATABASE = os.environ['MYSQL_DATABASE']
  
  EXCLUDED_FROM_CONSTRUCTORS = ['source_type']
  